• Dedicated to exploring the history and culture of the American South through research and public programs.
April 11-12, 2008 • AIME Building
Keynote Speaker: Raymond Arsenault
John Hope Franklin Professor of History
University of South Florida
"Freedom Riders: History, Human Rights, and Law"
April 11, 2008 • 4:30 PM
AIME Building, Room 111
Raymond Arsenault is the author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
Gorgas Library, Room 205
Chandra Manning
Assistant Professor of History
Georgetown University
"Waystations along a Crooked Road: Contraband Camps, the Relocation of Former Slaves, & the Elusive Meaning of Freedom"
Following the talk, Dr. Manning will sign copies of her book, What this Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Vintage, 2008)
Co-sponsored by the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, the Department of History, and UA Libraries
Gorgas Library, Room 205
Muhjah Shakir
Professor, Tuskegee University Bioethics Senior Scholar
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, Tuskegee University
"Stories that Heal, Stitches that Bind: The Syphilis Study and the Tuskegee Bioethics Community Quilt Project"
Co-sponsored by the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, the Department of History, UA Libraries, the College of Arts & Sciences and the support of Lakey and Susan Tolbert
“The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.” — William Faulkner